Unintended consequences: Louisiana project highlights unknowns around carbon capture
A Louisiana power company wants to capture its climate emissions, raising concerns about impacts on the state’s water supplies.
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Letter: EPA finds strong evidence state agencies have left Black residents living near Denka and throughout the Chemical Corridor disproportionately exposed to harmful pollutants
EPA investigation remains ongoing.
Losing ground: How one New Orleans community is sinking
Years after Entergy closed a power plant shuts in eastern New Orleans, the community struggles with sinkage.
Army Corps questions cumulative environmental and health impact of Greenfield’s proposed grain elevator project in letter rejecting “cultural resources survey”
The letter also addresses a failure to properly survey a potential prehistoric site.
Greenfield still working with consultant accused of misconduct by whistleblower
A whistleblower accused a Greenfield contractor of omitting key information from a legally required cultural resource report. And the Army Corps of Engineers has raised doubts about its work.
‘Blue hydrogen’ project threatens fragile, valuable ecosystem of Lake Maurepas, residents fear
Carbon below, wellheads above the lake’s surface raise concerns about the project.
What’s hindering Louisiana’s shift toward more renewable energy? Voters say their congressional leaders
Survey finds that nearly half of Louisiana voters support renewables, but most believe that politicians' ties to industry is a roadblock to shifting away from oil and gas.
Council sides with Gordon Plaza residents in fight over property buyout appraisals
A motion passed on Thursday instructs the city to use ‘replacement cost’ rather than market value.
Court vacates permits for proposed $9.4 billion petrochemical plant in state’s Chemical Corridor
Formosa’s own modeling showed that the plant’s emissions would push area pollution over federal standards.
Research seeks ways to grow solar and crops together in the skeptical Corn Belt
Researchers want to know how co-locating solar and crops — a practice known as 'agrivoltaics' — could benefit farmers and be a salve to a growing strain in the Corn Belt, where rural residents and towns are pushing back on solar projects that can often take farmland out of production.
